Sentence examples for an already tenuous from inspiring English sources

Knowing we violated that trust will drive a wedge in an already tenuous relationship.

"The delay will halt efforts to disarm MILF fighters – an already tenuous process.

That very week I took a misstep off a sidewalk curb and reinjured an already tenuous knee.

When an athlete transgresses — cheats on his wife, or takes drugs, or skips practice, or loafs in a game — an already tenuous relationship is threatened with ruin.

That move provided the first public breach of an already tenuous Democratic unity, as well as an unexpected twist to a primary race that many political observers believe had narrowed to the governor and Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo.

But the galleries also include the public in the United States and its NATO allies, where majorities in nearly every country oppose remaining in Afghanistan, and every new contretemps risks further eroding an already tenuous support.

He lost a living icon of the French left and crippled his already tenuous hopes of a second term in the Elysée Palace.

So what happens when a group of people whose already tenuous fingerhold on the consumer mainstream is weakened by bedroom tax, council tax and below-inflation benefit increases, at a time when prices are rising?

Any unfavorable findings will have a negative affect on the already tenuous support of Xerox shareholders.

And it's putting a huge strain on the already tenuous European Union, whose members have wildly divergent views on the matters of immigration and asylum.

But in a new twist Saturday night, the already tenuous relationship between Rangers Coach Glen Sather and Eric Lindros came to a crossroad.